• Latest pariah among the dedicated torrenters looks set to be Bono, following a piece in the New York Times in which he suggests that tackling filesharing is one of the great challenged of the next decade. Alongside the requirement to return us to a place where we see "the automobile as a sexual object", he derides the damage caused by piracy. "A decade's worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators — in this case, the young, fledgling songwriters who can't live off ticket and T-shirt sales like the least sympathetic among us," he says. "And the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business". We've discussed the numbers behind this stuff before. Worth fisking?